I haven't had any complaints from my neighbors when I turned my front yard into a veggie garden. But that was California.

We now live in very progressive area of Oregon. So I don't expect to have any complaints from my neighbors when I turn the ugly lawn into a veggie garden mixed with native berry plants and evergreen.

In retrospect, maybe having an ugly lawn to start off was the key. Anything else was better than a ugly burnt, weed infested lawn. Lesser of two evils to some